Fourteen pediatric residents (Medicine) have been accepted to present research abstracts at the Western Medical Research Conference in Carmel, California, in January.   The research was done in addition to their work at area hospitals and clinics. The  pediatric resident/physicians whose abstracts were accepted for presentation are:…

Chad Hensley (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received an appointment to the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT) board of directors. Hensley, who is part of UNLV's radiography program, will work with other board members during the three-year term to ensure the JRCERT promotes excellence in radiology…

John Mercer (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences) gave a presentation titled 'Why Do We Run the Way We Run?' at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan. The presentation was attended by Kyushu University faculty and graduate and undergraduate students as well as by high school students interested in exercise science.

Randy Dexter (Communication Studies) and Jefferson Detrick (Public Administration) were among those who graduated from the Student Veterans of America's 2017 Leadership Institute. Expected to be the leaders of tomorrow, the 93 graduates completed intensive leadership training over three days with access to distinguished leaders including former…

Dr. Karl Kingsley and Amy Tam (both Dental) published the research article "Microbial Ecology of Scardovia Wiggsiae-Positive and Negative Samples" in the Journal of Scientific Discovery in October.

Dr. Antonina Capurro, Dr. Elana Farfel, and Edward Lynch (all Dental) earned honors from the International Academy for Dental Facial Esthetics during the Greater New York Dental meeting. Capurro and Farfel graduated as academy fellows, and Lynch — also a fellow — received an award for Outstanding Research and Education in the Field of Dental…

David G. Schwartz (Center for Gaming Research) had an article, "Historical Parallels between Tournament Poker and Esports," published in the December issue of Gaming Law Review.

Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Music) just released a new CD on Equilibrium Recordings. This album, Handel: The "Halle" Sonatas, features late 17th-century trio sonatas that traditionally have been attributed to George Frideric Handel as his earliest works. Although the authenticity of this attribution has been called into question, the works remain popular…

Arthur Baragar (Math) recently spoke at the Princeton/Institute for Advanced Studies number theory seminar. His talk was titled "From Counting Markoff Triples to Apollonian Packings; a Path via Elliptic K3 Surfaces and their Ample Cones."